But energy forms a part of everything around us. Plants, animals, air and water – energy drives them all, but what if this energy becomes unbalanced? In short the system stops functioning properly resulting in ill-health within the organisms or systems that need energy to survive and thrive. Energy healing can help keep these systems in balance by healing the whole person.

When we have enough of the right kind of energy our lives feel better and we are more able to do what needs doing for the good of ourselves and those around us. Most of us are keenly aware of the times when our energy seems heavy and unresponsive and it is at these times that we can make use of energy healing to restore balance.

Orthodox medicine has in many ways caused us to lose touch with the importance of our own energy. There is a tendency to lean toward the alleviation of symptoms rather than addressing the root causes of our illness and disease. The theory goes that human beings experience illness because there is some aspect of their inner world that is being ignored. Energy healing gets right to the heart of those issues.

This means that change is important and necessary to restore the balance so that they might feel better and be healed holistically. To do this we need to look at not only the physical body but also the emotional and mental parts of ourselves. Healing the body without healing the ‘whole person’ will only result in a temporary cure and the problem is likely to recur. So energy healing seeks to heal a person’s ‘chi’ or life force – the energy channels within the body that keep our bodies and minds healthy.

When a person experiences trauma – whether emotionally or physically, the normal, healthy flow of energy within the body becomes disrupted and might lead to ill health in one or more of the body’s systems. The more serious the illness the more attention we need to pay to its underlying cause. It is where other methods might have failed that energy healing comes into its own.

Practitioners of energy healing like reiki, aura balancing, faith healing and kinesiology believe that it is possible to unblock energy channels and in so doing move it around the body into a more balanced state. This energy channeling helps the body to heal itself.

Energy ‘medicine’ and energy healing makes use of several different modalities to heal the whole body for example the use of herbs or crystals to change the body’s energy vibration.

But does energy healing really work? The practice of healing the energy centers in the body has many critics, many of whom are from the scientific and medical community. Skepticism, however, does not necessarily make a practice invalid or nonsensical and neither does and apparent lack of evidence to support many energetic systems of healing.

Most practitioners who are involved in the field of energy healing are satisfied by their own belief in the system and the anecdotal evidence from the many people who have been helped by energy healing modalities. To energy healers seeing is not, necessarily, believing and they choose, instead, to concentrate on what their patients say about the treatment they are receiving.

The one thing these two camps do agree on however is that everything is made up of energy. This is scientifically proven. This means that even solid objects like a table or chair are really made up of vibrating molecules. So energy healing might not be as far-fetched as you might think.

Of course to explore the concept of energy healing on a wider scale will require a paradigm shift to a completely different view of modern methods of healing to a more ancient (if scientific) approach.

Today more and more branches of energy healing are being developed to complement the ones that already exist. Healing therapies are as diverse as the people who practice them. There are energy healing systems which have been created by people with a conventional medicine background and those which have very little basis in either science or medicine (at least on the surface). This means that a person in need of healing can choose from a wide range of therapies.

Many techniques involve the use of the hands in healing. These are probably the most readily recognized and accepted. Reiki is a commonly practiced energy healing therapy that uses the practitioners openness to healing energy, connection with the ‘universal mind’ and in so doing make the action of touching the body more powerful.

Reiki makes use of ‘universal life energy’ to heal the body and mind. This means that healing increases the flow and amount of energy available to the body. This is probably a rather simplistic explanation as energy healing is far more complex and involves the interaction of the person being treated.

Energy healing might work any of the following systems:

* Meridians

* Chakras

* Chakras (”newly emerging”)

* “Etheric” (the ‘first layer’ of the energy field, or an ‘energetic blueprint’)

* Emotional energy body

* Mental energy body

* Astral layer Causal body

* Spiritual layers of energy field — specifically the following 3 named by Barbara Brennan in Hands of Light:
- 5th layer – “etheric template”
- 6th layer – “celestial”
- 7th layer – “ketheric template”

* Lightbody and vibrational energy healing

* Universal calibration lattice

Whether you accept the idea of energy healing or not, one thing is certain – some sort of healing is vital in today’s world and one that is free from harm and side effects can’t really be a bad thing. So why not sign up for a session or two and decide for yourself? You might be pleasantly surprised. My wish for you is one of healing and peace.

On July 4, 1947 an unidentified flying object ( UFO )crashed into the rocky plains region just outside Roswell, a small town in New Mexico. This strange craft, complete with reported strange markings and indestructible metal components was discovered on the property of a local rancher named W. Mack Brazel – together with his neighbors, Floyd and Loretta Proctor who witnessed this strange discovery.

It was a somewhat flamboyant culmination for the many townsfolk of Roswell who, several days prior to the incident had claimed to witness some unusual UFO activity in the area. This event is now referred to as ‘The Roswell Incident’.

This may seem fascinating in itself but the vessel was not the most important discovery made on that night. It is further alleged that lying next to the strange craft were the bodies of four passengers, three of them now dead and a fourth clinging to life. These passengers were by all accounts not from this earth, the passengers were not human!

These four beings were small and short in stature with grey, completely hairless skin and their oversized heads were complete with big black eyes. Needless to say Mack Brazel, upon making this eerie discovery, telephoned the local military base and in particular, Intelligence Officer, Major Jesse Marcel of the 509 Bomb Group who closed the site and took control of the investigation and subsequent clean-up of the crash ‘debris’.

Initially the local military were confident enough to announce the fact that they had found an authentic ‘flying saucer’ and news spread all over the nation about this alien spacecraft via the media and the soldiers who were part of the retrieval mission.

According to reports on the Roswell Incident, Glenn Dennis who was a young mortician at the Ballard Funeral Home received a telephone call from the morgue at the local air field. It is said that the Mortuary Officer wanted to obtain hermetically sealed coffins and asked how to preserve bodies that had been exposed to the elements for a few days without running the risk of contaminating the bodies.

However, a few days after the incident the vessel was seen to be the root cause of a seemingly all-encompassing cover-up by the United States government.

Suddenly, reporters from the news were told that it was not an alien ship at all but in fact an errant weather balloon that had crashed in Roswell, New Mexico. One radio station in the area was told that it would be closed down if they continued with any further news coverage and some individuals in Roswell were reportedly threatened with imprisonment or death if they revealed any information about sightings of the ship, its wreckage and its four passengers.

For forty more years the military, the government and the community at large were tight-lipped about the Roswell Incident and that seemed to be where the story was destined to end.

Then, after so many years had passed many people in the community began to talk about what they had witnessed on July 4, 1947. The story was about to be resurrected but needed concrete physical evidence to back up the resident’s claims before the government would be convinced to take it seriously.

1995 saw this proof realized when an anonymous army officer produced film footage that he had taken on the nights after July 4th and hidden ever since. The film showed in graphic detail an autopsy being carried out on one of the alleged passengers of the Roswell craft.

Now, with new evidence in hand, attention is once again focused on the crash and while all the details are still not known it seems likely that the whole truth will one day be revealed.

Most of the evidence gathered about the Roswell Incident is based on the testimony of eye-witnesses from Roswell and nearby and this is in fact the main problem with uncovering the truth about the events that took place that night.

The majority of people who have been questioned tend to relate conflicting and contradicting stories about what they observed that night.

This may be because their memories of an event that happened forty years ago have become blurred or because they are not being completely honest in their accounts with a view to getting ever-increasing media attention.

Scientific researchers have tried to obtain a better picture of the Roswell Incident by piecing together all the stories ever told and this in itsel

So, what really happened on the night of July 4, 1947 in Roswell, New Mexico?

Researchers Don Schmitt and Kevin Randle believe that the United States military had, for four days, been involved in monitoring an unidentified flying object ( UFO )on radar in Southern New Mexico.

They state that on that night this radar showed an object on the ground thirty to forty miles northwest of Roswell. This craft is thought to have been the one implicated in the Roswell Incident.

Why the military sought to cover the story up, if that is what they did remains unknown. The Roswell Incident is a mystery with many twists and turns and conflicting accounts. Will we ever know what really happened that night? I certainly hope so – we may have the right to know the truth and how it affects us all. If you want to continue your study on this fascinating subject in more detail than is can provided here, I suggest reading:

* History of UFO Crashes, Kevin Randle, 1995 Avon Books.
* The Roswell Incident, Charles Berlitz & William L. Moore, 1980 G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1988 Berkley Publishing Group.
* UFO Crash at Roswell, Kevin Randle & Donald Schmitt, 1991 Avon Books.

Do bear in mind that the jury is still out as to the truth of the Roswell Incident as reported from both sides of the fence: either it was a weather balloon or it really was an alien craft with alien passengers.

I’ll leave it up to you to decide!

We are aware that meditation works, but you might be wondering “how does mediation work?”

Meditation is especially effective in the reduction of stress as it works to manage both the physical indicators and emotional strain of stress. Meditation works in its ability to train our minds to clear away distractions that interfere with thought clarity, meditation relaxes our mind and enhances its ability to recover. Continued meditation conditions our mind to better control emotional anxiety.

Meditation works in alleviating the physical symptoms of stress. The physical symptoms of stress include a hastened heart beat, high blood pressure, shallow breathing and an unnaturally tense muscular system. Primarily meditation works on the physical symptoms of stress due to the breathing technique required for successful meditation. The slow deep breaths directly work in controlling and slowing the heartbeat, in turn greatly improving oxygen saturation levels through the circularly system that feeds the muscles, reliving physical strain. The result of improved oxygen saturation produces long lasting results in our overall health. Our major organ, including our largest organ, the skin receives a boost, increasing recovery from damage and minimizing damaging risk factors.

Meditation works in strengthening the mind by training, or reprogramming our way of thinking. Meditation requires positive, calm and relaxing thoughts to occupy all thinking. Meditation not only encourages self love, it requires it to be successful. Self love is high self esteem. People with improved self esteem are emotionally stronger and better equipped to mentally accept criticism and other “tricky situations” that occur in the events of a day.

Meditation reprograms our anger thoughts with repetitive calm gentle affirmations. These affirmations repeated daily become deeply imbedded as a part of our natural selves. The positive affirmations of meditation work on the principle that if you say something often enough you will believe it. Mediat

ion works to create positive life experiences by the practicing of positive visualization. Positive thoughts create positive results. If someone sees nothing else but successful outcomes they will believe in themselves and become proactive in striving for their goals, and focusing on success.

Meditation works to improve our relationships with others by significantly improving our relationship with ourselves. Meditation focuses very much on developing our self esteem, therefore the better we feel about ourselves the better we treat and respect the people around us. People who meditate do not feed off others for positive energy, they create their own. As a result of this positive energy you create light within yourself. Others are attracted to you as they are any other light source.

Meditation works because meditation is medicine for the mind, body and soul.